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** Inversely, as widespread DNA testing gets older it's increasingly unlikely that someone would not only be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing ''and'' the relevant parties (at least the falsely convicted and the real criminal) still be alive, let alone have any trail left. |
** Inversely, as widespread DNA testing gets older it's increasingly unlikely that someone would not only be exonerated post-conviction by DNA testing ''and'' the relevant parties (at least the falsely convicted and the real criminal) still be alive, let alone have any trail left. |
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* The use of smelling salts to revive a [[Fainting|woman who's fainted]]—more precisely, the virtual omnipresence of smelling salts in every home. Judging by any number of classic movies from the [[Golden Age of Hollywood]], you were more likely to find smelling salts in a random medicine cabinet than you were to find aspirin. As [[Fainting]] itself became a [[Dead Horse Trope]] if not a Forgotten Trope itself, its quick and easy countermeasure vanished from the trope pool as well. |
* The use of smelling salts to revive a [[Fainting|woman who's fainted]]—more precisely, the virtual omnipresence of smelling salts in every home. Judging by any number of classic movies from the [[Golden Age of Hollywood]], you were more likely to find smelling salts in a random medicine cabinet than you were to find aspirin. As [[Fainting]] itself became a [[Dead Horse Trope]] if not a Forgotten Trope itself, its quick and easy countermeasure vanished from the trope pool as well. |
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** ''[[Wizardry]] 8'' got Smelling Salts as a cure for [[Standard Status Effects|unconsciousness condition]] (that's more likely to happen as a result of [[Tap on the Head|being knocked out]], but sometimes accompanies fright effects… or stench). |
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* With identity theft becoming common and public knowledge of government invasion of privacy, the presence of shredded documents in personal trash indicating someone is a spy or otherwise up to no good has vanished and people have forgotten it ever was suspicious. |
* With identity theft becoming common and public knowledge of government invasion of privacy, the presence of shredded documents in personal trash indicating someone is a spy or otherwise up to no good has vanished and people have forgotten it ever was suspicious. |
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* As noted on the page for [[Pounds Are Animal Prisons]], the Diabolical Dogcatcher is a now-forgotten character type whose heyday lasted over a century, from the early 1800s to the middle of the 20th century. |
* As noted on the page for [[Pounds Are Animal Prisons]], the Diabolical Dogcatcher is a now-forgotten character type whose heyday lasted over a century, from the early 1800s to the middle of the 20th century. |
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** The last gasp of this trope was probably its brief incarnation as the Child Catcher in ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]''. |
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== Real Life == |
== Real Life == |
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